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Post-Election… Now, What?
Whew. It’s been a week. How are you feeling? Whether you felt celebratory or felt defeated, I bet you are exhausted. This election season has been a hard one and this writing piece is equally as hard. I decided I have two choices: One, tell exactly how I feel. Or two, be a source of…
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Courage Answers the Call
I’ve been thinking about bravery, courage, and boldness for a while now, ever since we started Bold Strong & Free. Even more so recently, as I’ve started the application process to be a missionary through my church’s missions organization. I don’t know all the details yet. I could be a career missionary spending years at…
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A Fruit Salad
Love Joy Peace Patience Kindness Goodness Faithfulness Gentleness Self-Control These are the Fruits of the Spirit Have you noticed that as we went through this series, each fruit of the spirit related to one another. It was hard to disconnect the attributes from one another and focus on just one attribute at a time. Maybe…
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Boldness of Daniel
Daniel has always been one of my favorite Bible stories because when I was little my grandmother often told it to me during the many hours we spent together. Daniel was part of a group of children from ancient Israel who were captured during war and brought to a place called Babylon. The king of…
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Boldness of Esther
If we look in the Bible, we can see many examples of boldness in both men and women. Today, let’s talk about the boldness of Esther to save the lives of her people, even to the point of risking her own life. To give a little background, Esther was a Jew. She had an older…
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Boldness of Mary & Martha
***This post contains passages from John 11:1-16 and John 12:1-8. In my titular post Bold, Strong, & Free, I discussed how the word “bold” conjures up the imagery of dauntless, reckless, and courageous. It is someone who is not afraid to take challenges. We define a bold person to be loud, but that is often…
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Why Bold, Strong, & Free?
I spent a lot of my life being the very opposite of bold, strong, and free. I’ve been timid and shy when I should’ve spoken up or taken a leap of faith. I’ve taken the easy way out when I should’ve embraced Christ’s strength in my weakness. Instead of being free, I’ve felt imprisoned by…
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A Perfect Trio of Words
Bold: fearless before danger; showing or requiring a fearless daring spirit. Strong: having or marked by great physical strength; having moral or intellectual power Free: having a scope not restricted by qualification; not obstructed, restricted, or impeded When we first talked about what we wanted to call this blog and decided on the name…
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Bold, Strong, & Free
When I first began to brainstorm what bold, strong, & free means to me. I could not isolate the three words on their own. They overlapped with one another. Each word is defined in the other word. Furthermore, I thought of a woman from my past, whose life is an inspiration of what it means…